Stopper extractor and protector.



No. 789,064. PATBNT'ED MAY 2, 1905. P. T. REED- a W. A. DIBTZBN. j STOPPBR EXTRAGTOR AND PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 23, 1904.

M r n m uw UNITED STATES Patented May 2, 1905.

PATENT QEEICE.

PLEASANT T. REED AND WILLIAM A. DIETZEN, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA.

STOPPER EXTRACTOR AND PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 789,064, dated May 2, 1905.

Application filed November 23, 1904. Serial No. 234,060.

T0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, PLEASANT T. REED and VILLIAM A. DIETZEN, citizens of the United States, and residents of Anderson, in the county of Madison and State of Indiana, have made a certain new and useful Invention in Stopper Extractors and Protectors; and we declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable vothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, andto letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The invention has relation to devices for facilitating the removal of corks and Stoppers from bottles, especially those whose contents are charg'ed with air or gas; and it consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter set forth.

The object of the invention is mainly to protect the person from iiying corks or pieces of glass when opening bottles of beer, such articles being often projected with great force, causing serious injury.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, Figure l is a perspective view showing the invention as applied. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the device as applied without the extractor, and Figs. 3 and 4 arel detail views of the extractor.

In the drawings illustrating the invention the letter L designates a bottle having a stopper L, and c a conical-shell protector formed with an opening Z at its upper and smaller end, such end being usually about an inch and a half in diameter and the opening a little smaller, formed in such wise that there is provided an inward flange e around said opening. The conical-shell protector is therefore frustum-shaped. The flange e is reinforced at its inner edge by a steel ring e', and below this ring is a washer or cushion c, of rubber or the like.

The upper and smaller end of the protector, which is formed of stout sheet metal, preferably copper, is usually reinforced, as at f, in order to make it strong enough to sustain the pressure of the extractor-lever. The upper end of the protector is provided with a swinging bail-form connection g, the middle portion of which extends transversely and to which is connected the extractor-lever 7L, the latter being provided near its point'end with an elongated slot Z, through which the bail g passes. This bail g has eyes g at its end portions engaging a wire annulus g2, revolubly engaging a groove of the cone-protector at g3. The lever is usually formed with a pointed curved end le to engage the link of the eye of a beer-bottle stopper.

The cone-protector may be made of brass, steel, copper, aluminium, or other proper material. The upper end is made a little larger in diameter than a common beer-bottle, and the shell widens out below sufliciently to surround and cover the neck and upper part of the bottle. In this manner it is designed to protect the hands and face, and especially the eyes, from flying pieces of glass in case the neck or the upper end of the bottle should burst. y

The extracting-lever being connected by means of the bail to the protector is always at hand ready for use therewith. The bail has aradial width about equal to the semiciroumference of the upper end of the cone-protector, and the ring connection being a revoluble one the lever can be adjusted laterally and easily manipulated in engaging and drawing the cork or stopper. The extracting-lever takes a fu'lcrum upon the upper end of the protector in withdrawing' the stopper. The elongated slot Z of the extracting-lever allows only suflicient play or movement thereof for proper engagement and disengagement of the lever with the staple of the stopper.

Having described the invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

l. The combination with a cone-protector, of a transverse pivoted bail, and the extracting-lever having an elongated slot immediately adjacent to the point thereof and engaging the bail, said bail being of such width that said lever is adapted to fulcrum upon the upper end of the protector, substantially as specified.

2. The combination with a cone-protector of the annular revoluble ring at the upper end of said protector, the bail pivoted to said ring and the extractingwlever having near its inner end of the protector device, substantially as end an elongated slot, and through which said specified. bail passes, substantially as specified. Intestimony whereof'weiaxrour signatures 3. The combination with aprotector device, in presence of two Witnesses. 5 of apivoted bail havinga Width approximately PLEASANT T REED equal to half that of the upper end of the protector device, and an extracting-lever having WILLIAM A' DIETZEN an-elongated slot .ad-jacent to the point thereof Witnessem through which said bail passes, whereby said ELMER ROBERTS, IO lever is adapted to fulcrum upon the upper vDoLIvER E. BoYLEs. 

